Contemporaries and Snobs
DECEASED Laura Riding, "Contemporaries and Snobs "
English | ISBN: 081735767X | 2014 | 160 pages | AZW3 | 343 KB
English | ISBN: 081735767X | 2014 | 160 pages | AZW3 | 343 KB
This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.
Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider. For readers today, it offers a compelling account—by turns personal, by turns historical—of how the institutionalization of modernism denuded experimental poetry. Most importantly, Contemporaries and Snobs offers a counter-history of the idiosyncratic, of what the institution of modernism left (and leaves) behind. With Gertrude Stein as its figurehead, the book champions the noncanonical, the “barbaric,” and the undertheorized.
Riding’s nuanced defense of a poetics of the person in
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